60 1GM Thursday January 14 2021 | the times the times | Thursday January 14 2021 1GM 61 Sport America's Cup America's Cup Sport YOUR GUIDE TO THE BRITANNIA, FOIL CANT INEOS TEAM UK’S AC75 System Arms Jones: I’m happy to face The hydraulic system, built by the The arms are built by the Italian Luna Ainslie’s toughest Kiwis, that lifts the foil arms in and out Rossa team and are used by all the By Matt Cornwell, three-time America’s Cup sailor of the water. It is the most complex boats, but how you control them can and now INEOS TEAM UK’s Racing Rules Advisor system ever put into a race yacht. All completely change your manoeuvres. teams have it, but there is a lot of You only want the leeward foil in the SAILS any player . even Serena wiggle room in how you use the water. The boat only needs one wing Mainsaii Camber explained system. It cannot ly the boat for you, in the water to ly so the JORGE FERRARI/STF test – can his ‘corgi’ There are two carbon ibre When going downwind but it can tell you how to do it, and windward-side foil is almost always mainsails separated by a you want more camber (shape) how you write the extremely complex out of the water to reduce drag series of small carbon ibre in the sail to give you power computer software is crucial Stuart Fraser components - the idea is that a little separation Mainsail 1 Hydraulic rams lower the leeward 5 Other modes between two sails creates a Mast arm into the water Tennis more eicient wing shape. Dock Correspondent Those components can be 2 As the boat gains speed the wing mode catch a ‘greyhound’? Camber used to change the sail’s begins to lift the boat shape depending on 3 Stable Before this week Francesca Jones had direction of travel The leeward foil counters the sailing and its relatively ponderous In New Zealand the British If you’re going upwind you wind, stopping the boat from already left many key figures within The British skipper tells Headsails behaviour through manoeuvres has challenger is still regarded as the rank want most of your power low in capsizing British tennis astonished at the way she We can choose from an Self Ed Gorman focused on foil design and sails, but outsider. The British effort — which the sail. Too much power up top has battled through adversity to launch he has hit unlimited number of 4 The small area of the wing left Wind righting the British skipper says that almost no enjoys royal backing from the can tip the boat over a career as a professional tennis player. rock bottom but will part of the boat, bar the hull shape, Duchess of Cambridge — was different sized headsails, submerged allows a signiicant But the manner in which she ensured a has been overlooked. “Pretty much compared by one columnist in depending on the wind reduction in drag first grand-slam appearance at next strength Windward never give up on his everything else we have been Auckland to a well-known canine 5 Arms and wings can be month’s Australian Open yesterday foil America’s Cup dream tweaking with some quite substantial breed, favoured by the royal family. controlled individually and put in took them farther aback. changes and some smaller tweaks, but He described the three challenger other conigurations 1 2 The third and final round of qualify- Jones cruised past the more experienced Lu Jia-jing to secure a grand-slam spot pretty much every area,” he said. boats, plus the defender, Team New ing was the biggest match of the 20- nyone who has followed “Some of that was planned as part Zealand, as: “One greyhound, two 3 year-old’s life, a chance to earn a cheque one has their own challenges, but my Ben Ainslie’s career will of our long-term development whippets and a corgi.” The question Leeward Lift for at least £55,000 and secure a seat on Britons heading to Melbourne challenge has been to put myself in a know that among his most programme; some was in reaction to now is whether Ainslie can conjure foil one of the charter flights leaving Dubai physical shape that prevents injuries. impressive qualities is his the problems we were having.” up enough aerodynamic and fluid- CREW for Melbourne tomorrow, so it would Dan Evans Age 30, world No 32 My feet work in a different way and that Cameron Norrie 25, No 74 ability to come back from The issue now is that, as every dynamic magic to get his corgi to fly HELMSMAN: Ben Ainslie 4 have been understandable had it been a means I run differently. My balance Aa seemingly hopeless position. change is introduced to Britannia, the on a hot summer’s day. nervy affair. Instead, Jones, the world Andy Murray 33, No 123 goes through my feet and toes in a dif- His primary focus is to keep the boat going fast. Everyone is 29, No 14 The problem the 43-year-old faces crew have to learn to sail with that Throughout this difficult time the linked by audio communication systems and Ben is talking at No 241 from Bradford, stepped up with Johanna Konta ferent way. now is that unlike many of his past alteration factored in. Normally you softly spoken Englishman said that all times. He coordinates all manoeuvres confidence, hit her forehand with ease Heather Watson 28, No 58 “In the gym, I have spent a lot of time fightbacks — notably in the Olympics would want months of testing time, as his team have shown their true mettle Double-skin and needed only 61 minutes to cruise to Francesca Jones 20, No 241 trying to gain strength to support my — it is not only he who needs to modifications are fed through to the in adversity. “When you go through a TACTICIAN: Giles Scott mainsail a 6-0, 6-1 victory against Lu Jia-jing, the Katie Boulter 24, No 365 muscles that can support the weakness- Also drives the boat but mainly feeds tactical information Anhedral improve, but a large and complex boat, which are then validated on the situation like we’ve been through as a WINGS experienced 31-year-old from China, es I may have. But I think every human team and the performance of one of water. Ainslie and company, though, team, the whole thing either just falls to the helmsman wing shape who was left as stunned as the rest of us. Australian Open: February 8-21, being has physical weaknesses, unless the first examples of the fastest have no time left and are trying to over and implodes, and everyone MAINSAIL TRIMMER: Bleddyn Mon A lot of the Soon the news spread worldwide of Live on Eurosport you’re Cristiano Ronaldo or something. monohull sailing yachts ever built. cram it all into just a few days. starts shouting and pointing fingers Trims the double-skin mainsail, which is essentially the engine hydro-dynamic design Jones’s endeavours, most notably the I just try to better mine as I would try to While Ineos Team UK’s two rival “We’re definitely seeing an and it’s just a disaster, or everyone of the boat in that it drives the AC75 through the water. He trims goes into the wings on way in which she has not let a rare better myself in any other way.” America’s Cup challengers, American improvement,” he said of Britannia’s pulls together and doubles down and the sail to keep the boat as level and stable as possible the bottom of the cant genetic condition — ectrodactyly ecto- Casal Academy in Barcelona, the same Notably, Jones was the only one of Team Magic and Luna Rossa of Italy, handling through turns. “[But] we are works a way through it. And that’s arms because they are individual to each boat. The rules allow dermal dysplasia, which meant that she venue at which the three-times grand- five British participants in Australian have been progressing in a calm and going to be right on the limit in being been the scenario here,” he said. FLIGHT CONTROLLERS: Leigh McMillan & Luke Parkinson each team to build six wings in total. The wing movements are was born with only eight fingers and slam champion Andy Murray trained. Open qualifying to win a set, and one measured manner, Ainslie’s team able to get it done in time and that But the pressure is on in every In charge of keeping the boat hovering above the water at the programmed in a computer, which can change the angle of the seven toes — end her tennis dream. While not a standout junior on the wonders if other players could learn have been working frantically around will define whether we make it sense if Ainslie is to avoid his second right height by controlling the wing foils wing laps to alter the lift they produce to keep the boat lying at “What an incredible story,” Kim international stage, she has worked her from Jones’s preference to shy away the clock before the Prada Cup through or not ultimately.” consecutive Cup failure at an early optimum height Clijsters, the former world No 1 from way up the professional rankings, from social media — her Instagram challenger selection series starts Fortunately for the British team, stage, to follow his exit from the last GRINDERS Belgium, tweeted yesterday.